Yes, thankyou!

"Smoothy" <bigvahid.antispam@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Useful info, thanks Reinder!
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> "Reinder Mulder" <rDOTiDOTm.NO2SPAM@hccnet.nl> wrote in message
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> > The aperture number is an indication the ratio between the focal length
> > and the size of the effective opening of a lens.
> > A smaller aperture-number means larger lens opening. This also means
> > more light passing, shorter exposure times, less blur from moving of
> > camera or subject, but also a smaller range of sharpness from foreground
> > to background.
> > The effect of the latter is more noticeable for lenses with long focal
> > length. The old 4x6 cm camera's (with standard 100mm or so lenses) had a
> > very small sharpness range whilst digital cameras (with standard 12mm or
> > so lenses) give a much larger sharpness range from foreground to
> background.
> > Therefore the difference between 2.8 and 8 will not be very obvious with
> > digital cameras.
> >
> > Reinder
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> >
> > dee_ss2001@hotmail.com wrote:
> > > I'm just starting to get into exploring the settings on my Canon S30
> camera,
> > > but am noticing that changing the aperture setting doesn't seem to
have
> as
> > > much of an effect as images I see in magazines and on the net would
> suggest
> > > it would. The difference between the maximum f8 and the minimum f2.8
> seems
> > > to be much less than I would expect from what I have seen and read. Is
> there
> > > anything I could be doing wrong or any quirk of the camera to know
> about?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Dee
> > >
> > >
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